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Comment by Anna Coote
Principal Fellow at the New Economics Foundation
There are fairer ways to spread prosperity than universal basic income. Better alternatives include universal public services and a minimum income guarantee.
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(2018)
2y ago
Policy proposals and claims
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Could not directly verify the quote because the source URL (https://neweconomics.org/2018/02/better-fairer-ways-spreading-prosperity-ubi) returns HTTP 403 to WebFetch on both http and https. Strong corroborating evidence exists, however: (1) Google indexes the URL with the page title "There are fairer ways to spread prosperity than universal basic income | New Economics Foundation" — the first sentence of the quote is verbatim the article title; (2) Anna Coote is confirmed as Principal Fellow at NEF and is well-documented as a leading critic of UBI who advocates Universal Basic Services and a minimum income guarantee as alternatives (consistent with the quote's second sentence); (3) the vote alignment is correct — Anna Coote is "against" the statement "Implement a universal basic income," matching the quote's anti-UBI stance. Year (2018) is older than 2025/2026, but I could not locate a recent (2025/2026) direct, attributable quote from Coote stating the same view to substitute. Marking ai_unverifiable per instructions due to the source URL being blocked, but the quote is very likely accurate. Verified by claude-opus-4-7.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-7
· 3d ago
replying to Anna Coote